What do Koreans eat on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival?

As we all know, the Mid-Autumn Festival originated in China and is a traditional festival of the Chinese people. But in countries that are heavily influenced by Chinese culture and use the same calendar, such as Japan, South Korea and Vietnam, there are also festivals similar to the Mid-Autumn Festival, but they are called by different names, and in South Korea it is called the "Autumn Festival".

Koreans celebrate the Autumn Festival with a family reunion, and more importantly, with ancestor worship and grave sweeping. Family members dressed in festive attire hold a simple memorial service at home or at the tombs of their ancestors.

The fifteenth day of the eighth month of the Korean lunar calendar is called "Chuseok," which is also known as the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival. It is also known as the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival. It is arguably the most important traditional festival of the year for Koreans, a festival of harvest and thanksgiving, and even more important than the Spring Festival (Lunar New Year).

On the Korean festival of Autumn Sunset, families gather at their grandparents' homes to pay homage to their ancestors, dance and enjoy the moon. Beautiful girls dress up in traditional costumes and play springboard games.

In addition to ancestor worship, there is also the custom of sweeping graves on the fall eve, which is usually held the day before or two days before the fall eve, and in recent times, more often on the same day. Since the graves of Koreans are usually located in the mountains, it is called "visiting the mountain".

Autumn festival 'sangsan' is the most important event of the year, and even if there is a great deal of work to be done, 'sangsan' should not be delayed. Every year during the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, South Korea stages a spectacular "national migration", just like China's Spring Festival.

Train and bus tickets are hard to come by, and for South Korea, where there is an average of 1.5 cars per family, many people return home in their private cars, so the highway traffic jams are very serious.